Browsing: Chibok girls

Ms Umar bagged a Master’s degree in Business and Science in Los Angeles, the day after the eighth anniversary of the May 14, 2013 terror attack in which she and her dad were shot by Boko Haram in their home.

Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, gave the reassurance in a statement to mark the seventh anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok girls.

Farouq said this in a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Nneka Anibeze on Wednesday in Abuja to mark the 7th Anniversary of the abduction of Chibok girls.

Irabor denied the claim in his interaction with newsmen during his Operational visit to the Theatre Command of Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri on Sunday.

Rev. John Hayab, Chairman of the chapter, gave this commendation in a statement issued on Sunday in Kaduna.

Impeccable sources with inside knowledge of the Al-Qaeda and ISIS linked jihadist operations in the region confirmed that about 10 of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls currently camped at Garin-Maluma and Sabil-Huda had “voluntarily” converted to Islam and selected new Muslim names

The mothers of the remaining 112 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity have called on the Federal Government and other world women organisations to intensify efforts toward the release of their daughters.

The MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. who made the appeal in a statement issued in Lagos, said the abduction was a huge blow to the country’s security apparatus.

The All Progressives Congress has told former President Goodluck Jonathan that he needed not to have replied former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, who accused him of preventing Britain from rescuing the abducted 274 Chibok schoolgirls shortly after they were taken hostage by Boko Haram Terrorists.

The Presidency has welcomed with reservations a new book titled “Beneath The Tamarind Tree”, written about the kidnapping of 270 Chibok school girls, by Isha Sesay, the ex-CNN broadcaster and now a Child Rights activist.

One of the 276 schoolgirls abducted by terrorists in Northern Nigeria in 2014, Palmatah Mutah, earned an Associate Degree from a community college in the United States of America on Friday.

Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Director, Muslim Rights Concern, has urged Muslims to use the holy month of Ramadan to supplicate for the freedom of Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok girls still in the hands of Boko Haram insurgents.

The Federal Government has assured the international community that it is working with its Swiss partners and others, on daily basis, to track and secure the release of remaining abducted Chibok Girls still in captivity.

The parents spoke on the sideline of a rally organised by a non-governmental Organisation, Al’amin Foundation for Peace and Development, as part of activities to mark the fifth anniversary of the abduction of over 270 schoolgirls

The #Bring Back Our Girls says it will host a panel discussion in the United Kingdom  on Sunday as part of its 90 days global campaign.

President Muhammadu Buhari says his promise to ensure the release of Leah Sharibu and the remaining Chibok girls in captivity of Boko Haram remains valid and will be fulfilled.

President Muhammadu Buhari has told parents of the schoolgirls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State that he has still not forgotten their daughters who were kidnapped from their dormitory five years ago on April 14, 2014.

Fall in a statement issued by Kusali Kubwalo, the Communication Analyst, UNICEF Field Office Maiduguri, said the call would serve as reminder to widespread abductions and grave violation of children’s rights in the northeast region

Nigerians on Twitter trolled former Minister and former presidential aspirant, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, when she spoke on the abducted Chibok girls, who are still in the captivity of Boko Haram Terrorists. 

According to a statement issued by President Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, Buhari made the pledge on Monday in Katowice, Poland, during a bilateral meeting with Swiss President Alain Berset, on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP24.